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    "id": 1194333,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emurua Dikirr, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Johana Kipyegon",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me this brief opportunity to add my voice to this matter. First, I thank the Member or the Members who brought this amendment to this House. It is always somebody who understands the nature of the countryside, the backgrounds we come from and the nature of the people we left behind there who can draft this Bill. At the outset, I support the amendment. There should be more amendments to ensure that a Bill passes the test. Ordinarily, so many people out there do not care. I say this because the people who have been going to the courts to stop the functions of the NG-CDF are people who live in urban areas and do not understand. Those activists do not care where that money goes. The anchoring of this provision in the Constitution of Kenya is so that the real beneficiaries - the people on the ground - never face anxiety and the situations we are facing. That is when some very idle people in this country go to courts to stop functions just because of a few issues that totally have nothing to do with the functions of that money. The NG-CDF is the mother of devolution. I think even the drafters of the Constitution of Kenya based their introduction of devolution or county governments on the NG-CDF. After the introduction of the NG-CDF, so many changes have happened on the ground. Somebody who was a good man or woman thought of changing the Constitution of Kenya and bringing in the issue of devolution. The problem with devolution is that the Governors elected to those positions have also never understood the reason we devolve this money to their dockets. That is why devolution has never been felt. We only feel and see the governors as presidents of counties. There is totally nothing to compare with the functioning of NG-CDF."
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